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Published on: November 1, 2024
Frequency selective coherence transfer NMR spectroscopy to study the structural dynamics of high molecular weight
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Abstract:
Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has enabled detailed characterizations of protein structures and dynamics that are closely linked to functions. However, it leads to a large sensitivity loss in applications to high molecular weight proteins, which is caused by spin relaxation during the frequency discrimination period in the indirect dimension. Here, we describe a selective coherence transfer scheme, which enables us to selectively observe 1H nuclei bonded to 15N or 13C nuclei with specified resonance frequencies. By utilizing this scheme, we achieved a 2.5- to 6-fold increase in signal height per unit of time with this scheme by avoiding the relaxation loss in the indirect dimension, as compared to the conventional two-dimensional heteronuclear correlation spectroscopy. We also demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach with applications to the membrane protein KirBac1.1, and characterized the functionally relevant conformational exchange process in both detergent micelles and a reconstituted membrane environment, corresponding to the apparent molecular masses of 220 kDa and 300 kDa, respectively.
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